Plans firm for shopping center near Trinity Catholic

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Sep 13, 2013 at 4:05 PM

Groundbreaking for a 90,000-square-foot shopping center across from Trinity Catholic High School, to be anchored by a Publix, is set for December, with a completion date projected for October 2014, according to project officials.

By Richard AnguianoBusiness editor

The groundbreaking for a 90,000-square-foot shopping center across from Trinity Catholic High School, to be anchored by a Publix, is set for December, with a completion date projected for October 2014, according to project officials.Officials with Konover South LLC., based in Deerfield Beach, said the Grand Oaks Town Center will include a 45,600-square-foot Publix, almost 17,000 square feet of in-line shop space and four outparcels.Benjamin Leon, developer of the property, has chosen Konover South as the fee developer for the project, said Blair Hyatt, Konover South executive vice president. That means Leon is retaining the company for development of the complex as well as for leasing and property management.Hyatt wouldn't reveal specifics about potential tenants besides Publix."We would expect a hair salon, a nail salon, a couple of restaurants, a pet store perhaps, a liquor store, the normal things you see in this sort of development," he said.Restaurants — fast-food as well as sit-down — banks and drug stores are the usual targets for outparcels, Hyatt said.The planned complex will sit across Southwest 42nd Street from Trinity Catholic High School, at the intersection of Southwest 27th Avenue.David McKenzie, president of Trinity Catholic, said he welcomes the news."We've been supporting the development of that since the very beginning," he said. "It'll certainly make the campus more visible to the community."McKenzie said he believes traffic the complex generates "shouldn't be a problem at all" for the school's operations, given the school's peak arrival and departure times in the morning and afternoon."What it does is get us more safety in terms of traffic lights and so forth," McKenzie said.Hyatt said Konover South is coordinating the work of Cuhaci & Peterson Architects of Orlando; Kimley-Horn and Associates' office in Ocala, design consultants; Michael Pape and Associates of Ocala, landscape architectural planners; and Gray, Ackerman and Haines, P.A., of Ocala; and Bilzin Sumber of Miami, legal firms.Konover South also developed and owns the Park View Commons retail center, which is also anchored by a 45,600-square-foot Publix, at Southeast Maricamp Road and Southeast 24th Street. That complex opened in 2011. The company owns and manages 15 Florida and Michigan shopping centers totaling nearly 2 million square feet.